The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-12-31

THE new green postage stamp must go.
1t Is printed with n poisonous ink and can
not be licked with impunity.
The City of Mexico has received $40, 900
In licenses on bull fights this year. The
license is 10 per cent. of gross receipts
SENATOR BUTLER has introduced bill
providing for the licensing of railway con-
ductors engaged upon Interstate lines.
THE young ladies of st. Joseph, Mo-,
have established society to encourage the
abolition Of the chewing of wax or gum.
THE Oklahoma boomers are organizing
another expedition for action in the spring,
in case Congress fails to open the country.
The biggest tree in California is the
s'Keystone State" in the Calveras Grove.
1t is 35 feet high and As feet in circumfer-
cnce.
KANGAROO leather has become so decid.
edly popular for shoes that 5000 skins are
received and tanned in Newark alone each
week. "
RECENT rains have melted the SHOWS in
the Vermont mountains, SO that the
streams were nearly as high as in the
spring.
AN international sanitary congress is to
be held January 9 at Linn. Most of the
sented.
Tnr mayor of Harrisburg, Pa, compels
tramps who are lodged over night at tho
city's expense, to sweep the streets in the
morning. l..
PLUMBERS used to be the aristocracy of
this country, but the laurcls Of wealth are
now temporarily gliding the brow of the
coal dealer. ta
WIN. AIKEN, colored, claiming to be 103
Z years old, was married to young widow
of thirty-three years. Both of Chester
County, s. G. ...,
PETROFF, the Bulgarian War Minister,
intends to have peace if he has to fight fer
1t, so he goes and orders one hundred
thousand guns.
LAW has been passed in Waldeck,
Germany, forbidding the granting Of a
marriage license to person addicted to
the liquor habit. f G
Ex-PREsIDENr GREvY Is an exquisite
classical scholar. He loves music and
painting, and has chastened style in
;yriting and speaking. s,.
ENGLISH anarchists are urging the hang
ing of all editors in America as a part of
the scheme of vengeance for the execution
Of the Chicago Haymarket conspirators.
NINE CANDELARIA, of San Antonio, Tex,
Is living in extreme poverty at the age of
one hundred. She is the sole adult sur
vivor OF the famous Fort Alamo massacre.
MRS. JOHN GUEST, of Wichita, Kas., in
her twenty years Of married life has been
the mother Of twenty-five children. She
has twice given birth to twins and once to
triplete. aAq&s g+'sra r
A COLUMBUS barber predicts a mild win.
. tor, because only one Of his customers is
raising full beard. He claims that men
= possess similar instincts to those of the
lower animals.
THERE are said to be thirty thousand
idiots in England, and asylums there are
$50 few and crowded that when vacancies
occur, elections to select inmates are held
In many towns. Ha,4 ~
BEWARE Of the deadly greenback's tin t..
"A woman employed in the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing has just died from
the effect Of poison in the ink used in print
Ing greenbacks. as
THE inspector of weights and measures
in Baltimore found merchants yardstick
an inch too long. The officer cut off the
phenomenal inch, had it fixed, and wears
1t aa q scarf-pin. sFt
ONE million dollars per annum have
been offered the Government of Peru by a
Chinese mercantile house in San Francisco
In returmfor the exclusive right to import
opium into,Peru.
ONE Of the novelties of the New York
poultry show Is "Rahway murder
chicken" lit was Matched from one of the
eggs found in the basket of the girl muir.
,dered at Railway. caf 1f2
" AN enterprising Detroit firm offers a
''large dressed turkey'' with every suit of
clothes sold, and a meat store across the
street gives away 'large dressed doll,
with every turkey sold
A LANSING (NIoH.) commission man has
received from a New York firm an order
for large quantity of wish-bones, which
will eventually he gilded and attached to
J S'good luck" cards for the holiday trade.
SAYS Mr.. LabOuchere: ,'King Leopold,
OF Belgium, is notoriously one of the most
abandoned profiigates that ever sat on a
throne and worthy descendant in this re-
spect to the dukes of Sake Coburg -Gotha. I"
SENIOR QUESADa, the Argentine minister
has one OF the most stylish turnouts in
Washington, He is a handsome anG rich
Widower, and is rated high ON the matri.
monial list by far-sighted mammas who
have eligible daughters OH the market
FAYsrrE COUNTY, PA, is the home of men
bearing very welLknown names. Andrew
johnson is an Industrious farmer of Whar-
ton Township, Jen Davis is carpenter of
Dairchance village, john Quincy Adams
lives In Jefferson Township, John Brown
As o Connellsville shoemaker, 4 George
Washington digs coal near Uniontswn,